Uwe E. Reinhardt

Uwe E. Reinhardt is the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. He is a leading health policy expert who has advised various state and international bodies, including the World Bank, the congressional Physician Payment Review Commission, the Veteran's Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He writes for Economix about health care and other issues.

Dr. Reinhardt has been a member of the of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences since 1978. He also serves on the board of Duke University.

Born in Germany, Dr. Reinhardt received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1964 and his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1970.

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August 15, 2013, Thursday

Uwe E. Reinhardt, a professor of health economics at Princeton University, researches international health care systems. He spoke with the Prescriptions contributor Anne Underwood about the German system. The full transcript is available online. Here...

September 19, 2009, Saturday

To the Editor: Peter Salgo argues that ''health care dollars became scarce in the 1980's and 90's.'' But if we look at per capita health spending in constant, inflation-adjusted year 2000 dollars, we see that spending rose from about $2,000 in...

March 26, 2006, Sunday

To the Editor: Thomas L. Friedman is now the cheerleader for an assault on Medicare and Social Security. He says he agrees with Michael Mandelbaum's idea that ''the greatest threat to America's role in the world today is not China. It's...

To the Editor: As the father of a marine on his second tour of duty in Iraq, I can fully empathize with Sue Niederer's grief over the loss of her son, First Lt. Seth Dvorin of the Army, killed while trying to defuse a bomb in Iraq.

THERE are no easy answers in reforming health care, but some economists in the field increasingly believe there may indeed be viable solutions to at least some of the nation's health problems. The seemingly intractable issues are well known....

CONSIDER what would happen if employers paid for their workers' car insurance and if that insurance covered routine maintenance. No doubt, the cars would spend a good deal more time in the shop, and the price of repairs and the cost of auto insurance...